Research Recap
The Meaning of Distraction: How Metacognitive Inferences from Distraction Affect Brand Evaluations
Key Takeway
Good news for marketers: carefully crafted ads delivered through appropriate mediums can still have a positive impact on brand evaluations even in the increasingly cluttered environment that consumers navigate today. That's because consumers may infer they have positive evaluations of a brand when they find themselves distracted by a background ad (i.e., distraction = interest).